Great timing here Stan, I mean the photo, not your attempt to buy a belt in the sale

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David

Yes Alan, those sticks are bloody annoying aren't they? That's easily within my capability to remove it, I did notice it but didn't bother removing just for uploading here, I wanted to know thoughts on the general image first.

Personally, I like the dark foreground as I wanted to lend the shot a bleak and dark look, but I now realise there's not enough definition there. The second attempt has gone too far the other way, but it was only a quick few seconds to apply a filter to the whole image, I made no attempt to retain the detail in the sky and this would be very easy to sort out.

Thanks for your help and input.

Thanks also to Alistair for the original comment.

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David

Welcome to the site JB, sorry I didn't post a 'welcome' before, but sometimes I just don't notice! I've seen you contributing to a few posts tonight, so this has prompted me to say 'hello'

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David

What about this one Alan?




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I'm afraid I haven't used a compact since getting my DSLR's John, it's just not the same experience for me. I do like to use the K-01 though, with either the DA XS 40mm, or a Pentax-M 50mm F1.4 and I don't find the fixed focal length limiting, I just work harder to get a good angle and the right shot.

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David

Hi Alan, not tried this, may give it a go. Colour one's in the gallery, the foreground in this one has a lot more interest, let me know what you think?

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David

Back to the Drawing Board then? I daren't post the colour one now!

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David

Lovely shots Alistair, second and third for me are the stand-outs.

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David

I haven't posted many images on the Forum lately, although a few have gone into the Gallery. I've been busy on macro stuff, but had a thought that I should get back into what I love best, i.e. landscapes.

I wanted to post a shot that has been particularly difficult, so much so that it has sat on my hard drive since last December while I wondered what to do with it. I always knew I wanted to do something with it, but couldn't decide on the best approach. Anyway, I've now processed it as a blended image, two different exposures of the same shot, not HDR but done in two layers. This is in an attempt to retain the dynamic range I was seeing when I took the shot, I hope this goes some way to succeeding. It was taken with the K-3 and DA 16-45, with a Hitech ND Grad, either 0.6 or 0.9, I don't recall which.

Please let me know what you think, this is the black and white version but I can post the colour one too if anyone's interested.

Ullswater Light




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David

PS: The title of the post is wrong, it should be 'First one for a while'

....Hey Nigel, what about a few interesting old members too?

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David